Performing viewings yourself - any tips?

Tinkaf1

Too much text speak? I am mystified! Because of a "LOL" at the end of a sentence, in a post that is clearly anything but?
I give up. You win, kids are the devils spawn and I am a monster for assuming that vendors would be welcoming. in fact I should perhaps have put it "I fnk u fnk kidz r jus evl lol, pmsl, rotflmao"?

Tinkaf1

Riq wrote: »

I've viewed the house I am buying twice, the guy who "showed" us round just opened the door and let me get on with it.

I liked him.

If I had any questions I just went back downstairs were he was just hanging round.

I think you really need to have that alone time to point out things to your other half. We have yet to view a house that has the present owners still in it. Our house that we are sell ing was empty, and the only ones we have viewed this time are no chain ones. I don't know what it will be like to view a house with the family still in it!

Financial_Savvy

Financial_Savvy wrote: »

We have just agreed a sale, but as we weren't using an estate agent we had to do the viewings ourselves.

Doing viewings yourself gives a personal touch and you can explain what you have done to the property, number of owners etc.

The buyers have pulled out. :mad::mad::mad:

Gutted.

FATBALLZ

Keep it factual, don't pressure the buyer and let them make their own mind up. GIve them any relevant information if you've had stuff refitted etc. but don't babble on constantly as really they can think for themselves.

googler wrote: »

Start and stop with the best room.

By all means show them the garden if the weather's nice, but there's little appeal in doing this if it's raining. Leave them to look at it as they leave if the weather's bad.

Don't offer anything negative about your house or its surroundings. Nothing at all. Not even if the viewers lead you into it, with some grouch about you being 'difficult to find'.....

Let them into each room first. You hang around at the doorway, or outside the room, so they have the room essentially to themselves and you don't crowd them (unless it's a big room). Only enter the room if required to show some feature or other.

Avoid saying "This is the lounge" when it's blatantly obvious which room it is. Try to lead a conversation about the lounge, as you introduce it - "We redecorated the lounge earlier this year....." or "The bathroom suite was replaced in ....."

There's no shame in writing yourself a script, and using this as a prompt as you walk around. Sometimes conversation with the viewers can distract you from what you want to tell them, as opposed to what they want to know.

A quick google for 'showing your own home' (you could try variants) brought forth;

http://www.home-sellers-club.co.uk/sell_own_house_how_to_viewings_day.html

Have to say in the viewings I've done the ones going for salesman of the year were by far the most offputting. "Don't say anything negative", "Don't let them go outside if it's raining", the sellers we've had who told me how everything was great did nothing but get my suspicions up about what they were hiding. The 3 houses we put offers on were normal people who mentioned the pros and cons of the house so we had confidence in the idea we had of what living there would be like.

But maybe I'm just cyncial.

Tigerlilley1980

We have just sold our house and did the viewings ourselves.

Definitely have every light on in the house before they arrive, also I had some nice smelly candles dotted around the place. Another tip is to make sure it is nice and warm, I had the heating on full so they could feel how hot the radiators were, but a brand new boiler was one of main selling points so we wanted to show it off.